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@error I refer you to the above video, again.
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Got a JIRA ticket assigned to me where the only requirements are a link to a half-hour long meeting recording video.
I asked for clarification, and got myself invited to another meeting.
At least this time I'll have the opportunity to ask questions.
Don't forget to record the meeting and attach the recording to the ticket
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@error I refer you to the above video, again.
For more information, please rewatch
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Gotta love how useless Firefox's
about:processes
is. The system shows Firefox using up 40% CPU, Firefox itself reports about 30%, yet none of the individual entries are more than 1-2% and the sum total of them all is about 7%.
Where's the rest?!
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@topspin running the process manager.
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@Arantor if that was the case, I wouldn't have opened it to check to begin with.
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Gotta love how useless Firefox's
about:processes
is. The system shows Firefox using up 40% CPU, Firefox itself reports about 30%, yet none of the individual entries are more than 1-2% and the sum total of them all is about 7%.
Where's the rest?!On mine Windows shows Firefox as using 9% but Firefox says it's using 20 to 24%
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Gotta love how useless Firefox's
about:processes
is. The system shows Firefox using up 40% CPU, Firefox itself reports about 30%, yet none of the individual entries are more than 1-2% and the sum total of them all is about 7%.
Where's the rest?!On mine Windows shows Firefox as using 9% but Firefox says it's using 20 to 24%
is that the menu calls it "Task Manager" but its tab says "Process Manager."
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I bought some cans of Pineapple Fanta from a store online. I ordered 2x12 cans - and I received 2x12 cans.
The is that I expected - as I’d received before - to receive them in 12-can cartons.
What I got was a large box where groups of 4 cans had been carefully bubble-wrapped and stacked neatly. I still got my 24 cans but… not as expected.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Pineapple Fanta
Just need to find a way to distill out the fizz so you can use it as a pizza sauce
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@izzion easy, open all the cans, leave it.
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@izzion easy, open all the cans, leave it.
Since you'd probably want to thicken it up a bit, put it to boil for a while in a sauce pan. The fizz will go before it starts dehydrating.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Pineapple Fanta
Just need to find a way to distill out the fizz so you can use it as a pizza sauce
Be more adventurous, leave the fizz in.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Pineapple Fanta
I’m not the one consuming it.
We don't drink shame here
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Pineapple Fanta
Just need to find a way to distill out the fizz so you can use it as a pizza sauce
As the NYEI thread is leaking here already: prawns with garlic and Fanta are actually really good.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
prawns with garlic
and Fanta
Sounds horrible, right? Filipino cooking, which is usually pretty lame but sometimes produces such gems of ‍
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Got a JIRA ticket assigned to me where the only requirements are a link to a half-hour long meeting recording video.
I asked for clarification, and got myself invited to another meeting.
At least this time I'll have the opportunity to ask questions.
Meeting results: inconclusive. Outcome: future meeting scheduled with more participants.
Filed under: The meetings will continue until morale improves
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Meeting results: inconclusive. Outcome: future meeting scheduled with more participants.
Pikachu was unavailable for comment as he's stuck in a meeting
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Meeting results: inconclusive. Outcome: future meeting scheduled with more participants.
Pikachu was unavailable for comment as he's stuck in a meeting
Specifically trying to work out if Palworld is litigable or not for Nintendo.
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@Arantor Everything is litigable. Whether you have any chance of winning the litigation is another matter, but you can always file a suit.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@Arantor Everything is litigable. Whether you have any chance of winning the litigation is another matter, but you can always file a suit.
And Nintendo usually does.
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@HardwareGeek Nintendo is normally pretty hot off the mark but so far... nothing.
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@HardwareGeek Nintendo is normally pretty hot off the mark but so far... nothing.
And really, Palworld double dips into litigable territory - their open world exploration & fast travel system is extremely heavily influenced by Breath of the Wild, down to almost straight ripping off the musical tone when you unlock a fast travel point.
But Genshin Impact led the way for blatantly ripping off BOTW's gameplay loop years ago, and TemTem is a much much more blatant ripoff of Pokemon's systems, and as far as I've seen neither of those ever got a visit, so maybe Nintendo has decided to stick to suing fan fictions into oblivion.
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@HardwareGeek Nintendo is normally pretty hot off the mark but so far... nothing.
Not for the game itself but they rather obviously went after an unofficial Pokemon mod.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Pineapple Fanta
I’m not the one consuming it.
Is there a congratulations in order here?
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Pineapple Fanta
I’m not the one consuming it.
We don't drink shame here
Only because we have a dedicated thread for that sort of thing.
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Got a JIRA ticket assigned to me where the only requirements are a link to a half-hour long meeting recording video.
I asked for clarification, and got myself invited to another meeting.
At least this time I'll have the opportunity to ask questions.
Meeting results: inconclusive. Outcome: future meeting scheduled with more participants.
Filed under: The meetings will continue until morale improves
The good news is that you don't have to actually do anything. FTW.
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And really, Palworld double dips into litigable territory - their open world exploration & fast travel system is extremely heavily influenced by Breath of the Wild, down to almost straight ripping off the musical tone when you unlock a fast travel point.
But Genshin Impact led the way for blatantly ripping off BOTW's gameplay loop years ago, and TemTem is a much much more blatant ripoff of Pokemon's systems, and as far as I've seen neither of those ever got a visit, so maybe Nintendo has decided to stick to suing fan fictions into oblivion.
Basic gameplay loops probably aren't copyrightable (and certainly aren't going to be trademarkable as they're functional elements) and getting a patent on them would be super difficult now. The original inventor — who doesn't necessarily work for Nintendo — might have stood a chance of doing it one time, but the opportunity is past and it's all essentially unprotected.
The sound might not be something Nintendo can litigate over if they bought it from somewhere else as part of a general sound pack. Particular looks of things are much easier to prove cases over; I'm not sure if Nintendo own the Pokemon looks themselves or are just major licensees, but the difference probably only matters if you're having to read the C&D letter...
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Is there a congratulations in order here?
Yes!
Congratulations @Arantor for not being the one consuming Pineapple Fanta.
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Putting aside the WTFery of me using iTunes (because we all know iTunes is ), I bought an album yesterday on iTunes.
It showed up in purchases, but not in the music app. Pressing the download buttons did not help - they’d download, be “processed” then deleted because there was a snafu around something. This, then, was Schrödinger’s Album: purchased but also not purchased.
I leave it overnight because caching is hard and I have seen such shenanigans before but this morning I still have Schrödinger’s Album.
So I do what Apple Support suggests, and log out and back in to iTunes.
Next thing I realise, it’s now downloading what looks suspiciously like all my albums.
I hit the downloaded tab in Music, it says 22 albums, all of which look like my manual uploads to iCloud (thus manual sync) and everything else is missing.
A few moments later, it reports 279 albums which is a more realistic figure but at the same time, there’s now suddenly an awful lot in my Downloads tab, like it’s re-downloading the 4000 odd songs that it decided I wasn’t, then was, licensed for.
At lest I have a decent enough connection such that this is only going to take maybe an hour and not all day.
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@Arantor An error has occured. Please buy again later.
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Schrödinger’s Album
But why would you listen to a recording of a cat furiously meowing?
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@Applied-Mediocrity no, now that whatever cache invalidation has happened, I have my album without a second purchase.
I know it’s cool to shit on Apple and all, but for the most part their stuff does work as intended, even if the intent is Reality Distorted at times.
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@Zerosquare that’s no way to talk about Tarja Turunen.
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I know it’s cool to shit on Apple and all, but for the most part their stuff does work as intended, even if the intent is Reality Distorted at times.
You just have to hold it as intended.
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@LaoC I have a case for it, I’m reasonably sure it’s insulation.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
On mine Windows shows Firefox as using 9% but Firefox says it's using 20 to 24%
Whose task is it anyway, where the numbers are made up and the points don't matter
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I’m not the one consuming it.
You're torturing someone by making him/her drink it?
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Pineapple Fanta
I’m not the one consuming it.
I’m not sure we approve of you force-feeding pineapple fanta to family members but at least you're not the one drinking it. Is Lilt still around or is that an Irish thing?
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Is Lilt still around or is that an Irish thing?
It got renamed to Fanta Pineapple & Grapefruit.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
@Arantor An error has occured. Please buy again later.
You would be surprised by the amount of sites you can’t purchase from on a vpn.
Somewhat related, I got a static ip from my vpn provider. Half the internet blocks it out of hand. Technically its reducing the amount of captchas I see but mostly because Cloudflare and their like usually blocks it. I can use the british tv apps now though so swings and roundabouts I suppose.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Is Lilt still around or is that an Irish thing?
It got renamed to Fanta Pineapple & Grapefruit.
OFFS. Now I’m just sad.
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I’m not sure we approve of you force-feeding pineapple fanta
No force-feeding, I was asked if I would obtain for the consumption thereof by a family member - they wanted, I supplied like the dealer I am.
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@Arantor
FriendsFamily members don't helpfriendsfamily members drink pineapple fanta
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@TimeBandit thanks for reminding me I have an open botttle of Pinacolada in my fridge!
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@TimeBandit thanks for reminding me I have an open botttle of Pinacolada in my fridge!
Hopefully it didn't get caught in the rain